METHOD FOR PRODUCING HARDENED STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS

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APP PUB NO 20140020795A1
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13997585

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The invention relates to a method for producing a hardened steel component with a coating composed of zinc or a zinc alloy; a blank is stamped out of a sheet coated with the zinc or zinc alloy, the stamped-out blank is heated to a temperature ≧Ac3 and if need be, kept at this temperature for a predetermined time in order to induce the formation of austenite, and then the heated blank is transferred to a forming die, is formed in the forming die, and is cooled at a speed that is greater than the critical hardening speed and thus hardened; the steel material is adjusted in a transformation-delaying fashion so that a quench hardening through transformation of austenite into martensite takes place at a forming temperature that lies in the range from 450° C. to 700° C.; after the heating and before the forming, an active cooling takes place at >15K/s.

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VOESTALPINE STAHL GMBHAUSTRIA LENZING UPPER AUSTRIA

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Kolnberger, Siegfried Pasching, AT 17 106
Kurz, Thomas Linz, AT 40 126
Rosner, Martin Oed-Ohling, AT 16 235
Schwinghammer, Harald Pasching, AT 4 16
Sommer, Andreas Crailsheim, DE 51 580

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